Oooh. Vincent Price would have been good. Ian McKellin would be good. Heck, there are so many actors not being used.
Oh, I always thought David Niven played Bond in Casino Royale?
Actress… Hm. Kate Mulgrew? I dunno.
Actress - Kathy Bates. First off, you know she can play the psychotic (Misery) and it also lets you put a nasty kink in the ‘all women are beautiful’ aspect of Bond films. Or you could make her Bonds spy partner (Not Bond Girl though) (And have her actually survive) for a really nasty twist.
Actor - Voice of James Earl Jones, the villian is a Rogue AI. Everyone thinks it is a person, and even the audience doesn’t know until the end. Everyone deals with Mr. Big via video phone or similar, and the AI generates the image used.
I’ll second Jeremy Irons and Sam Neill in particular. I was going to post Irons in my previous post, just because I associate him with the Rickman and the Die Hard series.
And Neill’s already played the epitome of all evil, so why not?
I like the Lucy Lawless idea…
here is another I came up with
John Lithgow (He is too good at being bad! * Raising Cain, Footloose,etc*
How about that kid from Sixth Sense? Now that would be interesting…
“I see dead people…and you will soon be one of them, Mr. Bond! Bwaaa-ha-ha!!”
Some really good suggestions here that have already been mentioned:
Oliver Reed. Too bad he’s dead.
Vincent Price. Wonderful campy actor.
Ian McClelland. He’s alive and I can picture dastardly deeds from him.
Gary Oldman - Loved him as the bad guy in Airforce One.
Jack Nicholson would be good, probably too good.He’d take over the plot like he did with Batman: The First Debacle.
Kathy Bates would be fabulous as an evil woman.
What about Kathleen Turner. She’s not doing much of anything these days but Burger King voice overs.
Lauren Bacall, for some reason, comes to mind. It’s the voice.
Tina Turner, too. Voice, legs, body.
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Ohhhh, I know the total representation of pure evil: That girl from the Pepsi Commercials. Now that is scary.
Female villains:
Kathy Bates
Tina Turner (she could also sing the theme song)
Sigourney Weaver
Lucy Lawless
Dame Judi Dench (so she’s M, so what? She could kick his butt)
Linda Hamilton, with Terminator 2 muscles
Angela Basset, with Tina Turner muscles
Male villains:
Roger Moore, Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton, acting together
Samuel L. Jackson
Mike Meyers as Austin Powers
Dana Carvey, master of disguise
Harrison Ford (he needs to play a bad guy)
CeeJay…I too agree with you on the Harrison Ford needing to be a bad guy. Samuel Jackson or Lawrence Fishburne would be my picks as the brothers vs. Bond.
HOW COULD WE FORGET THIS GREAT ACTOR: TIM CURRY!
I just woke up from a nap and I swear on all that is groovy, that I dreamed of what would be the next Bond collaberation: Muppets & 007. Wouldn’t thatbe a kick! Bond could team up with the Muppets to save the Universe that is being threatened by, say, Dabney Coleman or …oh! John Lithgow.
Miss Piggy could be the utimate Bond Girl.
Excuse me while I whip up a script and send it to the Bond Team and the Muppet Head Quarters.
(Naturally I have this damn song " Why are there so many songs about rainbows" in my head, which is absolutely not a 007 song at all!)
recovers from smeghead’s sixth sense comment
Gary Oldman (my all-time fave bad-guy)
Russel Crowe (with those eyes? hell yeah!)
Gabrielle Byrne (we need a gritty bad guy)
That young blond guy from NBC’s “The Others” would be mildly interesting, just because he’s unlike what we’ve seen before–give Bond a young, pretty enemy for a change.
I don’t know his name–wait, I’m on the 'net, I’ll look it up.
…doo-du-doo…
Gabriel Macht, apparently.
Yep, there’s my out-of-left field vote for a Bond villain actor.
You know, reading Foolsguinea’s post made me giggle and then wonder of just how close that post was to his stream of consciousness posting could be.
I now cannot get the jeaopardy tune out of my head. Thank you very much.
I think the guy who plays the X-Files Cigarette Smoking Man would make an interesting foil for Bond. Connery of course would be very interesting.
Samuel Jackson? “Shaft versus Bond; can you dig it?”
Gary Oldman always does a great bad guy, even if the movie isn’t that great–Lost in Space, The Professional, Fifth Element, Air Force One…
As for people you’d like to see whomped on Bond style…
What’s Slick Willie doing after January 2001? Hillary seems right for the job too…
Roseanne? The Spice Girls? Ricky Martin with the lethal, exploding bon-bon? “Look out James, it can’t maintain structural integrity much longer!”
Thought of another fella who’d make a great Bond villain: Armand Assante.
If he doesn’t come to mind right away, here’s some credits: Odysseus in the TV movie The Odyssey, Rico in Judge Dredd, Ned Ravine in Fatal Instinct (the Basic Instinct / Fatal Attraction-based comedy they show on Comedy Central periodically).
I first saw him in the Jack the Ripper TV movie back in the late 80s. He does ‘menacing’ very well.
That kid who won this year’s National Spelling Bee and came in second in the National Geography Bee… or perhaps some certified super genius, on the condition that they write the script (I’m sick of Hollywood slacker portayals of geniuses)
WAIT!!! CECIL! He’s love it! At last we’d get a plot that made factual sense. He’s already got the sidekicks and goons -er- moderators. Too bad JillGat’s not a moderator anymore. She’d get a kick out of it too. I can imagine an Evil Eutychus, and… well, the rest is left as an exercise for the student!
“Actually, Mr. Bond, the candiru rarely swims up the urethra but in your case, we’ll make an exception.”
BTW, in Casino Royale, David Niven (not Larry Niven, as I thought as a child) played Sir James Bond, while Woody Allen played ‘Jimmy Bond’/Dr. Noah
KP: Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Good one.
I can’t believe I proposed the Sixth Sense kid and forgot the kid that played Anakin!
“Golly, Mr. Bond. Killing you will be wizard! Wheeee!!”
or I might have rushed right in and identified Woody Allen’s role in Casino Royale, oblivious of the fact that KP had already done so.
I wasn’t really sure if London Calling was yanking our chains or if he really was unaware that Woody Allen has already been a Bond villain.
I gotta go Ukulele Ike one better, though, in calling for an end to the franchise. IMHO (to coin a phrase), once Casino Royale was in the can, the entire Bond ouevre was rendered obsolescent and redundant. It was the only film in the whole shebang that was worth a damn. Continuing to make Bond movies was as senseless (from a standpoint of what the human race actually required for continued existence), as if Hollywood had insisted on releasing Blazing Saddles II.
Ya don’t add new brush strokes to Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. Ya don’t tack on an oboe cadenza to Brian Wilson’s Good Vibrations. Ya don’t illuminate the Slug Signorino illustrations for the latest reprint of The Triumph of The Straight Dope. And ya don’t keep churning out Bond flicks when perfection has been achieved, especially when the director has given you a five-megaton excuse to kill the Limey off.
My last humble opinion for this post: If Hollywood had really felt the mind-bending, soul-stretching need to throw the creations of Ian Fleming up on a screen, well, let me just say that the world would be a much better place if I had a Special Collectors Edition boxed set of the Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang series (films one through twenty-seven, including the director’s cut edition of the original).
Aw, come on. One last spin, then we’ll throw in the towel.
The villains can be:
Gary Coleman, the bitter child star with revenge on his mind,
Mary Kate & Ashley, the promiscuous but evil twins,
that nasty Old Navy hag and her mangy dog Magic,
and of course, Gilbert Gottfried, about whom I need not say more.
Instead of a hot chick as his sidekick, Bond should be assisted by a loud and obnoxious Will Smith in drag. Who wouldn’t pay $8.50 to see it? On second thought, don’t answer that.
Paul Reuben